Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1887-07-29
SWITHIN C. SHORTLIDeE'S
Media Academy, Media, Pa.

YVHIRTEEN miles from Broad Street Sta
Il ton, Philadelphia. School year .ls86-'S7
opens Wednesday, September 9th. Fixed
price covers every expense, even books, etc.
No extra charges except for music. Students
admitted and classified at any time. No ex-
animation necessary for admission. Summer
vacation school July and August. The reg
ular school year opIns September 9th, but
students may come at any time before Sep
TENDER 9th, or be admitted after the 9Th,
when vacancies occur. A boarding school of
the highest grade for young men and boys
One of the best equipped, best taught and
most successful schools in the United States.
Twelve experienced teachers, all men and all
graduates-four Of them Harvard men. All
teaching In small classes so that each pupil
may have individual care. Special attention
to both advanced and backward pupils In
dividual and class instruction. EARLY def
ciencies 10 young mems education corrected.
Young men whose education has been neg
lected instructed privately. Special oppor-
tunities for apt students to advance rapidly.
Special drill for dull and backward boys
Patrons or students may select any studies or
choose the regular English, Scientific, Civil
Engineering, Business or Classical Course, or
parts of different courses. Students fitted at
Media Academy are now in Harvard, Yale,
University o. Pennsylvania, Princeton, Lee
high, Lafayette, University of Virginia, Co.
lumbia, Williams, Dickinson, Cornell, and
several Polytechnic Schools. CONDITIONED"
College students OF any class tutored in any
study and fitted for any college examination.
H.physical and chemical laboratory. Courses
OF lectures, with the best and fullest appar-
atus for illustration. Fifteen hundred vol
umes added 10 the Academy Library in 1888.
Physical apparatus doubled in 1888. Ten stu
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l5 in 1884, 10 in 1885, 10 1885. A Grad
uating Class every year in she Commercial
Department. Fine school buildings, in which
all the students live with the Principal. No
boarding.out In private families. Rooms car
peted and furnished with wardrobe, bureau,
table, washstand, toilet set, two single beds
with springs, good mattresses, pillows and
an ample supply of bedding, all in complete
order, etc. Buildings carpeled throughout,
and thoroughly heated by steam. Rooms for
one or two boys. No large dormitories. Rooms
lighted with gas. Media Academy sets gen
erous table. The students are not poorly fed
under the economical plea that plain food and
meagre diet are best for students. Dining
room fitted out in the best manner Experi-
enced men walters. First-class steam laun-
dry. Day and night watchmen. gymna-
sum, with two bowling alleys and other fix
lures. Ample grounds for base ball, foot ball
and athletic sports. Drainage and water sup
ply perfect. No malaria. The health record
Of Media has few parallels. Media Academy
has all the convenience and appliances ne
cessary to make 1t real home and a first-class
academy. school for the training Of gem
tlemen. No hazing or other rowdyism No
''roughing it.h Students at this academy
must not sacrifice the home influences for an
education devoid of good morals, good man
ners and genteel surroundings. The school
is adapted in every way to the education 70
young men and boys only. Media Academy
is not mixed school, but strictly a boarding
school for the male sex Media has seven
churches, and Temperance charter which
prohibits the sale Of all intoxicating drinks.
Media is conveniently accessible from all
points No change of depots in Philadelphia,
coming from New York, Pittsburg, Balti-
more or Washington. Twenty trains leave
Broad street Station, Philadelphia, for Media.
Return trains every hour, distance 10 miles.
Ask at Media Station for Academy coach
Drive TO the school only five minutes. For
new illustrated circular OF Media Academy
address the Pricipal and Proprietor, SWITH-
IN .. SH0RTLIDGE, A. B, and A. NJ,
graduate of Harvard College, Media, Penna
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